How to combine Dash and Flask login without using iframe?

Question:

I have a flask application, some pages of the app is protected with Flask-Login, I need to add Dash plot to my application, the plot should be on the page which requires authentification. I should add that in addition to Flask Login, I created user access levels using flask session.

I found how to combine Dash with protected page using iframe block, but I would like to try to make dash plot as a separate page (not iframe) with user authentification. If forget about authentification I have no problen to add Dash plot as a separate page in Flask app.

Typically I do the following to check login:

@app.route("/somempage", methods=["GET", "POST"])
@flask_login.login_required
def return_somepage():
    active_username = session['user_id']
    try:
        HOST, USER, PASSWORD, AUTH_PLUGIN = 
        InitSetup.read_mysql_init_config_file(WORKDIR +
        os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "mosreg_webscrap_website.config.txt"))
        conn, curs = MySQLOP.create_mysql_connection(HOST, USER, PASSWORD, 
        AUTH_PLUGIN)
        active_user = MySQLOP.retrieve_userinfo_from_db(curs, 
        active_username)
#now we check value of db colum and decide if user can see the page:
if active_user[0][4]:
    #show page
else:
    # return user have no rights to see the page template
Asked By: Artiom Kozyrev

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Answers:

I have manged to do that by using @login_required coupled with an in function condition to check if the user is logged in and authorized.
If not it will redirect him to the login page.

@main_bp.route('/', methods=['GET'])
@login_required
def dashboard():
    return protected_view()

Adding more details..

## app.py
import flask_login
from flask_login import login_required
from flask_login import LoginManager

login_manager = LoginManager()

app = Flask(__name__, instance_relative_config=False)
login_manager.init_app(app)

with app.app_context():
    # Import parts of our application
    from visual import routes, auth

    # Register Blueprints
    app.register_blueprint(routes.main_bp)
    app.register_blueprint(auth.auth_bp)

    # Create Database Models
    db.create_all()


## routes.py
from flask_login import current_user
from flask import current_app as app
from .assets import compile_auth_assets
from flask_login import login_required

# Blueprint Configuration
main_bp = Blueprint('main_bp', __name__,
                    template_folder='templates',
                    static_folder='static')
compile_auth_assets(app)


@main_bp.route('/', methods=['GET'])
@login_required
def dashboard():
    return protected_view()

This tutorial should be useful..
https://scotch.io/tutorials/authentication-and-authorization-with-flask-login

Answered By: Gabe

I successfully added @login_required in my dash app, using the following:

in __init__.py of flask app

app = Flask(__name__, instance_relative_config=False)

# other stuff ...

@app.route("/dash", methods=['POST','GET'])
@login_required
def dash():
    return appdash.index()

in dashapp.py

appdash = dash.Dash(__name__, external_stylesheets=external_stylesheets, server=app)

Notice that I did not define a route in the Dash app declaration (i.e. routes_pathname_prefix='/dash'), so Dash App may only be viewed through the route of my Flask app, to which I put @login_required.

@login_required in my case is the one from Flask tutorial

Answered By: Irene Vandorou

Hi @Artiom Kozyrev and Others ! Could you please explain or provide the solution for how to embed the Authentication Enabled Dash Webpage in an HTML page using ?

Answered By: Vikram Singh